Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 107
If you could purr or lay eggs, they would pass away."
Who acts: you, fancies · What happens: purr, lay, pass away · To what, where: eggs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fancies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 purr | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 purr | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 purr | aux |
| 4 | purr | purr | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pass | advcl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 lay | cc |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 purr | conj |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 purr | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pass | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pass | aux |
| 11 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 pass | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pass | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr a condition, not said to happen | could | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | you not said here | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 3 | pass away | would | fancies = fancy | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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